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STATE lil.'. TORICAL CIETY
HITT & MifcRY
COLUMBIA, HO. 65211
" MI' , oJttesowrum . 7 iron woman WttHtfT
VJA1 tOf fW'VlV herself . See Pages 6B- 7- B. h jf- -
77th Year No. 57 Good Morning! It's Monday, November 19, 1984 2 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents
Anila Kelso
By Adam Clymer
New York Times Balanced budget Page 8A
With more Americans expressing
confidence about government than in
a decade, the public expects Presi-dent
Reagan to avoid an economic
recession in his second term and to
make a real effort to negotiate arms
control treaties, a New York Times- CB- S
News Poll shows.
But at the same time the public ex-pects
him to break his most insistent
campaign promise and ask Congress
to vote an increase in taxes. Fifty- seve- n
percent of the public and 40
percent of his own voters expect him
to ask for higher taxes.
The poll detailed the depth and so-lidity
of the national swing toward
the Republican Party, showing
Americans now about equally divid-ed
between those who identify with
them or with the Democrats.
This development prompted a
leading Republican poll taker, Rob-ert
M. Teeter, to say, " We are in the
midst of a major political re-alignment
in this country." But how
that shift played out, he said, would
depend on how well Republicans
handled themselves after Reagan
left the White House, especially how
they handle their own potential clea-vages
over social issues.
The poll showed that the breadth of
support Reagan enjoys was not lim-ited
to voters, who gave him 59 per-cent
of their votes on Nov. 6.
Among non- vote- rs his support was
even higher, as 66 percent of them
said they would have voted for him
and 25 percent said they preferred
Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic
candidate.
To measure attitudes toward his
second term, the political parties
and the campaign after Reagan's
landslide, The Times and CBS News
reinterviewed 1,798 of 1,994 voting- ag- e
Americans who were polled Oct.
31 to Nov. 2. The new interviews
were conducted Nov. 8 to 14, and the
results have a margin of sampling
error of plus or minus 2 percentage
points.
Forty percent of the public said
they thought government was run
for the benefit of all the people. Al-though
more, 49 percent, said they
thought it was run " by a few big in-terests
looking out for themselves,"
the 40 percent figure was the highest
measured since 1972, and just four
years ago only 21 percent said gov-ernment
was run for the benefit of
all.
A comparable finding came from
another of the " trust" questions
asked for more than three decades in
the National Election Study con-ducted
through the Center for Politi-cal
Studies at the University of Mich
igan. The question is, " How much do
you think you can trust the govern-ment
in Washington to do what is
right just about always, most of
the time, or only some of the time? "
In this poll 45 percent said the gov-ernment
could be trusted all or most
of the time. Four years ago, only 25
percent gave those answers, down
from levels as high as 76 percent in
1964.
Among this year's voters who
voted for Reagan four years ago, 56
percent said the government could
be trusted all or most of the time. In
a similar post- electi- on poll four
years ago, 43 percent of Reagan vot-ers
gave those answers .
Fifty- eig- ht percent of the public,
for example, answered yes when
asked, " Do you think Ronald Reagan
will be able to handle the economy so
that there will be no recession during
the next four years?" Three- fourth- s
of his voters, one- four- th of Mondale's
and three- fift- hs of the non- vote- rs
thought he would. Forty- fou- r percent
of those Reagan voters said the econ-omy
was the main reason they had
voted for him.
He got even higher marks on the
issue where Mondale had attacked
him hardest during the campaign,
arms control. Two- thir- ds of the pub-lic
and nine- tent- hs of his own voters
said yes when asked " Do you think
Ronald Reagan will make a real ef-fort
to negotiate a good arms control
agreement with the Soviet Union?"
Even Mondale supporters were
evenly divided on that question, with
40 percent saying he would and 42
percentsaying he would not.
These findings generally paral-leled
what the public said they
wanted to see from his administra-tion.
Asked to identify two accom-plishments
they hoped for, half the
public named a strong economy or
jobs and almost as many gave an-swers
dealing with arms control and
better relations with the Russians.
Answers given with some frequen-cy
were hopes that he would deal
successfully with the deficit, by 17
percent, that he would hold taxes
down, by 9 percent, that he would
help the poor, by 10 percent, that he
would safeguard Social Security, by
6 percent
Another encouraging finding for
Reagan in this poll was a softening of
his image about the poor. Twenty- nin- e
percent of the public, up from 16
percent in January, 1982, said they
thought he cared a great deal about
the needs and problems of the poor.
While 24 percent of those with family
incomes of less than $ 12,500 took that
view, only 6 percent of blacks did.
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Giving thanks
with a parade
Neither snow nor frosty temperatures 1
seemed to chill the spirits of the more than 1
12,000 parade enthusiasts Sunday who at- - I
tended the fifth annual Thanksgiving Pa-- j
rade. Clowns, Santa Clauses, 10 bands and J
carloads of Columbia merchants welcomed j
the holiday season. Above, Caroline Knight,
10, awaits the parade's beginning with other
members of the Columbia Tigerettes, a
group of student twirlers. The parade began
near Stephens College and continued west
on Broadway. Left, Andrea Sciortino and her
son, Marc, rode in Cub Scout Pack 60' s hay- wago- n.
" We almost didn't ccme because it
was so cold," said Columbian Kay Russell,
who had brought two children to the parade.
" I'm glad that we made it though, it's been a
very good parade."
Expert tells farmers
relief Is top priority '
By Waik Tucker
Mlssourian staff writer
Relief of stressful financial condi-tions
in agriculture will take priority
over the writing of the 1985 farm bill
this winter, according to Harold F.
Breimyer, professor and extension
economist emeritus.
Speaking at the 13th annual agri-cultural
policy seminar, which
ended this weekend, Breimyer said
that President Reagan essentially
gave financial relief priority over
other farm issues in his unprece-dented
Sept. 18 announcement that
extends Farmers Home Administra-tion
loans and guarantees private
bank loans to distressed farmers.
He said the question of eligibility- wil- l
play a major role in the pro-gram's
implementation, but that the
government would probably open eli-gibility
requirements after the initial
' I
cautious period.
The agricultural policy seminar
this year was renamed in honor of
Breimyer, who retired earlier this
year.
Breimyer predicted that price sup-ports
would be relatively low in 1985,
and that direct deficiency payments
from the federal Treasury would be
usedto supplement farm income.
He said mat price supports helped
fanners deal with the price- co- st
squeeze, but that farm programs
cannot compensate for current high
interest rates.
Breimyer said that a balanced fed-eral
budget was not the real issue in
future agricultural policy, but that
the current tax code was one of the
immediate problems facing farm-ers.
He said that if the interest rates
stay at current levels, the assets in
agriculture will eventually be owned
only by those who could take advan- -
tage of the existing tax code.
Former legislator Joe D. Holt, who
opened discussions Friday morning,
said that the lack of a long- rang- e ag-ricultural
policy was one of the wea-kest
links in Missouri agriculture.
He said one option not yet exercised
by farmers the formation of an
agricultural union would help to
offset political power that is being
lost through the dwindling farm pop-ulation.
Holt, an attorney, said the state
also lacked a comprehensive long- ran- ge
plan for general state affairs,
which resulted in the government
" bouncing from one crisis to anoth-er."
John E. Ballard, local government
specialist at the University, warned
against over- relian- ce on " new tech-nology"
to solve the problems of
dwindling resources in agriculture.
Ballard said one of the most finite
of those resources land will con-tinue
to be depleted as long as abso-lute
property rights include the right
to make a profit from land. This al-lows
developmental interests, not
agriculture, to control farmland in-terests.
i
Competition begins for possible sites
By Michael Coil
Mlssourlan staff writer
Speculation about locations for
horse racing tracks in the state has
created a stir among public officials
and private investors throughout
Missouri since passage of Amend-ment?.
The amendment legalizes pari- mutu- el
wagering on horse races in
Missouri.
More than 100 Pettis County resi-dents,
including civic leaders and
horse breeders, attended a public
meeting Nov. 12 in hopes of bringing
the pontes to Sedalia, the home of the
Missouri State Fair. Also Howard
Koplar, who owns the Lodge of the
Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, Mo.,
publicized his intentions Nov. 15 to
build a racing facility on 3,500 acres
of Shawnee Bend peninsula near
Truman Dam.
Despite the flurry of interest in
horse racing, Columbia and Boone
County officials say there has been
no interest in a local track.
" The main reason we ( Sedalia and
Pettis County officials) set up a com-mittee
to study racing was to get
ahead of other communities," Seda-lia
Mayor Larry Foster said. " We
have a lot of advantages over other
areas and we have got to protect Se- dali- a's
economy."
Sedalia and Pettis County officials
plan to set up a seven- memb- er group
to determine the cost of changing an
auto racing oval on the fairgrounds
to ahorse track.- -
The efforts in this western Missou-ri
region represent the most orga-nized
push in local government c&
cles for a racing facility in Missouri.
Koplar's plan, on the other hand.
represents the first senous proposal
from Missouri's private sector.
Some of his employees are studying
tracks in Lexington, Ky., Omaha,
Neb., and Hot Springs, Ark. The
five- memb- er team will synthesize
features from those tracks to create
a master plan for the track, he said.
The site for the $ 50 to $ 60 million
track is ideal, Koplar said.
" If someone would draw a circle
around the lake area and determine
how many people travel through
here, even those who don't stop, it
would be four million annually," Ko-plar
said. " It's a successful resort
area and the property values have
been rising for the past 20 years."
The pari- mutu- el amendment di-rects
the governor to appoint a five- - ,
member Missouri Horse Racing
Sm BOND, Pag 8A
I

STATE lil.'. TORICAL CIETY
HITT & MifcRY
COLUMBIA, HO. 65211
" MI' , oJttesowrum . 7 iron woman WttHtfT
VJA1 tOf fW'VlV herself . See Pages 6B- 7- B. h jf- -
77th Year No. 57 Good Morning! It's Monday, November 19, 1984 2 Sections 20 Pages 25 Cents
Anila Kelso
By Adam Clymer
New York Times Balanced budget Page 8A
With more Americans expressing
confidence about government than in
a decade, the public expects Presi-dent
Reagan to avoid an economic
recession in his second term and to
make a real effort to negotiate arms
control treaties, a New York Times- CB- S
News Poll shows.
But at the same time the public ex-pects
him to break his most insistent
campaign promise and ask Congress
to vote an increase in taxes. Fifty- seve- n
percent of the public and 40
percent of his own voters expect him
to ask for higher taxes.
The poll detailed the depth and so-lidity
of the national swing toward
the Republican Party, showing
Americans now about equally divid-ed
between those who identify with
them or with the Democrats.
This development prompted a
leading Republican poll taker, Rob-ert
M. Teeter, to say, " We are in the
midst of a major political re-alignment
in this country." But how
that shift played out, he said, would
depend on how well Republicans
handled themselves after Reagan
left the White House, especially how
they handle their own potential clea-vages
over social issues.
The poll showed that the breadth of
support Reagan enjoys was not lim-ited
to voters, who gave him 59 per-cent
of their votes on Nov. 6.
Among non- vote- rs his support was
even higher, as 66 percent of them
said they would have voted for him
and 25 percent said they preferred
Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic
candidate.
To measure attitudes toward his
second term, the political parties
and the campaign after Reagan's
landslide, The Times and CBS News
reinterviewed 1,798 of 1,994 voting- ag- e
Americans who were polled Oct.
31 to Nov. 2. The new interviews
were conducted Nov. 8 to 14, and the
results have a margin of sampling
error of plus or minus 2 percentage
points.
Forty percent of the public said
they thought government was run
for the benefit of all the people. Al-though
more, 49 percent, said they
thought it was run " by a few big in-terests
looking out for themselves,"
the 40 percent figure was the highest
measured since 1972, and just four
years ago only 21 percent said gov-ernment
was run for the benefit of
all.
A comparable finding came from
another of the " trust" questions
asked for more than three decades in
the National Election Study con-ducted
through the Center for Politi-cal
Studies at the University of Mich
igan. The question is, " How much do
you think you can trust the govern-ment
in Washington to do what is
right just about always, most of
the time, or only some of the time? "
In this poll 45 percent said the gov-ernment
could be trusted all or most
of the time. Four years ago, only 25
percent gave those answers, down
from levels as high as 76 percent in
1964.
Among this year's voters who
voted for Reagan four years ago, 56
percent said the government could
be trusted all or most of the time. In
a similar post- electi- on poll four
years ago, 43 percent of Reagan vot-ers
gave those answers .
Fifty- eig- ht percent of the public,
for example, answered yes when
asked, " Do you think Ronald Reagan
will be able to handle the economy so
that there will be no recession during
the next four years?" Three- fourth- s
of his voters, one- four- th of Mondale's
and three- fift- hs of the non- vote- rs
thought he would. Forty- fou- r percent
of those Reagan voters said the econ-omy
was the main reason they had
voted for him.
He got even higher marks on the
issue where Mondale had attacked
him hardest during the campaign,
arms control. Two- thir- ds of the pub-lic
and nine- tent- hs of his own voters
said yes when asked " Do you think
Ronald Reagan will make a real ef-fort
to negotiate a good arms control
agreement with the Soviet Union?"
Even Mondale supporters were
evenly divided on that question, with
40 percent saying he would and 42
percentsaying he would not.
These findings generally paral-leled
what the public said they
wanted to see from his administra-tion.
Asked to identify two accom-plishments
they hoped for, half the
public named a strong economy or
jobs and almost as many gave an-swers
dealing with arms control and
better relations with the Russians.
Answers given with some frequen-cy
were hopes that he would deal
successfully with the deficit, by 17
percent, that he would hold taxes
down, by 9 percent, that he would
help the poor, by 10 percent, that he
would safeguard Social Security, by
6 percent
Another encouraging finding for
Reagan in this poll was a softening of
his image about the poor. Twenty- nin- e
percent of the public, up from 16
percent in January, 1982, said they
thought he cared a great deal about
the needs and problems of the poor.
While 24 percent of those with family
incomes of less than $ 12,500 took that
view, only 6 percent of blacks did.
L 17 ." V. iLr V ISt " Crt"'' I
gBjgaBnBBBBBHBBRMB- MBBaHnaaDKHHaHHKtHniHaaMBBnnHiBHBMBHn- HH"
Giving thanks
with a parade
Neither snow nor frosty temperatures 1
seemed to chill the spirits of the more than 1
12,000 parade enthusiasts Sunday who at- - I
tended the fifth annual Thanksgiving Pa-- j
rade. Clowns, Santa Clauses, 10 bands and J
carloads of Columbia merchants welcomed j
the holiday season. Above, Caroline Knight,
10, awaits the parade's beginning with other
members of the Columbia Tigerettes, a
group of student twirlers. The parade began
near Stephens College and continued west
on Broadway. Left, Andrea Sciortino and her
son, Marc, rode in Cub Scout Pack 60' s hay- wago- n.
" We almost didn't ccme because it
was so cold," said Columbian Kay Russell,
who had brought two children to the parade.
" I'm glad that we made it though, it's been a
very good parade."
Expert tells farmers
relief Is top priority '
By Waik Tucker
Mlssourian staff writer
Relief of stressful financial condi-tions
in agriculture will take priority
over the writing of the 1985 farm bill
this winter, according to Harold F.
Breimyer, professor and extension
economist emeritus.
Speaking at the 13th annual agri-cultural
policy seminar, which
ended this weekend, Breimyer said
that President Reagan essentially
gave financial relief priority over
other farm issues in his unprece-dented
Sept. 18 announcement that
extends Farmers Home Administra-tion
loans and guarantees private
bank loans to distressed farmers.
He said the question of eligibility- wil- l
play a major role in the pro-gram's
implementation, but that the
government would probably open eli-gibility
requirements after the initial
' I
cautious period.
The agricultural policy seminar
this year was renamed in honor of
Breimyer, who retired earlier this
year.
Breimyer predicted that price sup-ports
would be relatively low in 1985,
and that direct deficiency payments
from the federal Treasury would be
usedto supplement farm income.
He said mat price supports helped
fanners deal with the price- co- st
squeeze, but that farm programs
cannot compensate for current high
interest rates.
Breimyer said that a balanced fed-eral
budget was not the real issue in
future agricultural policy, but that
the current tax code was one of the
immediate problems facing farm-ers.
He said that if the interest rates
stay at current levels, the assets in
agriculture will eventually be owned
only by those who could take advan- -
tage of the existing tax code.
Former legislator Joe D. Holt, who
opened discussions Friday morning,
said that the lack of a long- rang- e ag-ricultural
policy was one of the wea-kest
links in Missouri agriculture.
He said one option not yet exercised
by farmers the formation of an
agricultural union would help to
offset political power that is being
lost through the dwindling farm pop-ulation.
Holt, an attorney, said the state
also lacked a comprehensive long- ran- ge
plan for general state affairs,
which resulted in the government
" bouncing from one crisis to anoth-er."
John E. Ballard, local government
specialist at the University, warned
against over- relian- ce on " new tech-nology"
to solve the problems of
dwindling resources in agriculture.
Ballard said one of the most finite
of those resources land will con-tinue
to be depleted as long as abso-lute
property rights include the right
to make a profit from land. This al-lows
developmental interests, not
agriculture, to control farmland in-terests.
i
Competition begins for possible sites
By Michael Coil
Mlssourlan staff writer
Speculation about locations for
horse racing tracks in the state has
created a stir among public officials
and private investors throughout
Missouri since passage of Amend-ment?.
The amendment legalizes pari- mutu- el
wagering on horse races in
Missouri.
More than 100 Pettis County resi-dents,
including civic leaders and
horse breeders, attended a public
meeting Nov. 12 in hopes of bringing
the pontes to Sedalia, the home of the
Missouri State Fair. Also Howard
Koplar, who owns the Lodge of the
Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, Mo.,
publicized his intentions Nov. 15 to
build a racing facility on 3,500 acres
of Shawnee Bend peninsula near
Truman Dam.
Despite the flurry of interest in
horse racing, Columbia and Boone
County officials say there has been
no interest in a local track.
" The main reason we ( Sedalia and
Pettis County officials) set up a com-mittee
to study racing was to get
ahead of other communities," Seda-lia
Mayor Larry Foster said. " We
have a lot of advantages over other
areas and we have got to protect Se- dali- a's
economy."
Sedalia and Pettis County officials
plan to set up a seven- memb- er group
to determine the cost of changing an
auto racing oval on the fairgrounds
to ahorse track.- -
The efforts in this western Missou-ri
region represent the most orga-nized
push in local government c&
cles for a racing facility in Missouri.
Koplar's plan, on the other hand.
represents the first senous proposal
from Missouri's private sector.
Some of his employees are studying
tracks in Lexington, Ky., Omaha,
Neb., and Hot Springs, Ark. The
five- memb- er team will synthesize
features from those tracks to create
a master plan for the track, he said.
The site for the $ 50 to $ 60 million
track is ideal, Koplar said.
" If someone would draw a circle
around the lake area and determine
how many people travel through
here, even those who don't stop, it
would be four million annually," Ko-plar
said. " It's a successful resort
area and the property values have
been rising for the past 20 years."
The pari- mutu- el amendment di-rects
the governor to appoint a five- - ,
member Missouri Horse Racing
Sm BOND, Pag 8A
I